CG Technology sports books planning to bring back Golden State Warriors 73-win prop bet

Sensing a growing demand, Las Vegas sportsbooks are considering re-offering a prop bet on whether the Golden State Warriors will surpass the NBA record for single-season wins.

After recently taking it down, Jason Simbal of CG Technology said the company was planning to bring back the popular bet Tuesday or Wednesday at the nine race and sportsbooks it operates in Las Vegas.

“The plan was to do it after the All-Star break,” Simbal said Tuesday, “but considering the fact that Golden State just blew out three of the best six or seven teams in the league by 30 points, we may put it up tomorrow or today – just a yes or no of ‘Will they beat the record.'”

Sportsbooks have taken a bit of a beating on the publicly supported Warriors so far this season. Simbal said the defending NBA champs, who began the season with 24 straight wins, opened the season with an over/under set at 58.5 wins and received a reset total of 69, both of which were predominantly bet over. With 41 wins already, the former looks like a lost cause and the latter is peril from the books’ perspective.

The Warriors are also 26-17-2 against the spread this year and their games have generated heightened interest from bettors. Simbal said their Monday night game against San Antonio was one of the most popular games of the regular season.

“In terms of the quantity of bets, we did two times more on the Golden State-Spurs game than we did on the busiest game of the whole weekend,” Simbal said. “That’s a Monday night, 7:30 p.m. (Pacific time). It just shows you how popular that game was.”

And most of those bets (about 65 percent) came in on the Warriors, who opened at -4 and closed at -5. They won in a rout, 120-90, over the team with the second-best record in the league (albeit without Tim Duncan).

It was the first of four games the Spurs and Warriors will play over the last half of the season, and it’s that back-loaded schedule that prompted Jeff Sherman, assistant manager of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, to say Golden State had “no chance” of reaching 73 wins this season.

“There’s no way the Warriors are going 36-5 with that schedule,” Sherman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, just prior to the current three-game winning streak over the Cavs, Bulls and Spurs. “We’re in real good position on the prop.”

Sherman said the SuperBook, which took down the 73-win prop last week, may consider bringing it back, but it won’t be until after the Super Bowl.

At 41-4, the Warriors now hold the league’s best record by three games over San Antonio, though the Spurs lead the league in point differential. In addition to three more games with San Antonio, Golden State also has three more with Oklahoma City in a challenging stretch across the season’s final weeks.

If the Warriors reach 73 wins they would eclipse the Chicago Bulls’ record set in the 1995-96 season. That Chicago team is only one in history to reach the 70-win plateau, and only two others (including the 96-97 Bulls) have ever won 69.

Golden State won 67 last season and was 37-8 through 45 games.